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Book Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast

Download or read book Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast written by Elizabeth A. Sobel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a key theoretical and methodological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity, as well as for understanding the social, political and economic organization of chiefdoms and states. This volume is the cumulative result of more than a decade of research focusing on household archaeology as a means to gain understanding of the evolution of social complexity, regardless of underlying economy.

Book Journal of Northwest Anthropology

Download or read book Journal of Northwest Anthropology written by Roderick Sprague and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards the Identification of Lampreys (Lampetra spp.) in Archaeological Contexts - Ross E. Smith Virginia L. Butler Spirituality: Spirit Piracy and Native Sweat Lodges First Place Co-Winner, Student Graduate Prize Paper Northwest Anthropological Conference, 2008 - Line Laplante The Power of a “Hot” Haircut: Consumers and Hair Salons in Victoria, B .C. - First Place Co-Winner, Graduate Student Prize Paper Northwest Anthropological - Conference, 23–26 April 2008 - Angélique Lalonde Walí·mliyas: The Nez Perce National Historical Park Dugout Canoe Collection and Dugout Canoe Use Among the Nez Perce Indians - Bob Chenoweth Abstracts of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, 23–26 April 2008

Book Studies in Archaeometry

Download or read book Studies in Archaeometry written by Mario Ramírez Galán and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the Archaeometry Symposium at NORM 2019, Portland, Oregon, papers, with case studies in Spain, Canada, Thailand, Lithuania or Russia, address the application of different techniques in archaeology in order to comprehend some aspects during and after excavations, for instance, physics, chemical analysis, remote sensing, LiDAR, etc.

Book Social Complexity and Corporate Households on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America  A D  1450 1855

Download or read book Social Complexity and Corporate Households on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America A D 1450 1855 written by Elizabeth A. Sobel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America

Download or read book Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America written by Leland Donald and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross-cultural definition of slavery. Arguing that slaves and slavery were central to these hunting-fishing-gathering societies, he points out how important slaves were to the Northwest Coast economies for their labor and for their value as major items of exchange. Slavery also played a major role in more famous and frequently analyzed Northwest Coast cultural forms such as the potlatch and the spectacular art style and ritual systems of elite groups. The book includes detailed chapters on who owned slaves and the relations between masters and slaves; how slaves were procured; transactions in slaves; the nature, use, and value of slave labor; and the role of slaves in rituals. In addition to analyzing all the available data, ethnographic and historic, on slavery in traditional Northwest Coast cultures, Donald compares the status of Northwest Coast slaves with that of war captives in other parts of traditional Native North America.

Book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes

Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by Roderick Sprague and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editorial: Changes in NARN Stories Oregonians Tell About Coyotes--Folklore or Natural History - Roberta L. Hall and Alison T. Otis Oregon Coast Prehistory: A Brief Review of Archaeological Investigations on the Oregon Coast - John A. Draper Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 34th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference Clay Tobacco Pipes from Spokane House and Fort Colville - Michael A. Pfeiffer Settlement and Subsistence in the Willamette Valley: A Reply to Towle - John R. White Bibliography of Idaho Archaeology: 1977-1979 - Max G. Pavesic, Mark G. Plew, and Roderick Sprague

Book Journal of Northwest Anthropology

Download or read book Journal of Northwest Anthropology written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Models in Archaeology

Download or read book Models in Archaeology written by David L. Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major study reflects the increasing significance of careful model formation and testing in those academic subjects that are struggling from intuitive and aesthetic obscurantism toward a more disciplined and integrated approach to their fields of study. The twenty-six original contributions represent the carefully selected work of progressive archaeologists around the world, covering the use of models on archaeological material of all kinds and from all periods from Palaeolithic to Medieval. Their common theme is archaeological generalisation by means of explicit model building, testing, modification and reapplication. The contributors seek to show that it is the use of certain models in particular ways that defines archaeology as the practice of one discipline, with a set of general tenets that are as applicable in Peru as in Persia, Australia as Alaska, Sweden as Scotland, on material from the second millennium B.C. to the second millennium A.D. They assert that careful model formulation within archaeology and the cautious exchange and testing of models within and beyond the discipline provides the only route to the formation of the common, internationally valid body of theory which defines a vigorous and coherent discipline and distinguishes it from being a collection of merely regionally applicable special cases.

Book Journal of Anthropological Research

Download or read book Journal of Anthropological Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Prehistory of the Northwest Coast

Download or read book The Prehistory of the Northwest Coast written by R. G. Matson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a descriptive overview of the cultural complexity on the northwest coast that stretches from northern California to Alaska. Topics covered range from the earliest settlements to the subsequent cultural diversities in Native American populations. Maps, charts, and illustrations further enhance the book's interest and appeal.

Book The Organization of Production Among Sedentary Foragers of the Southern Pacific Northwest Coast

Download or read book The Organization of Production Among Sedentary Foragers of the Southern Pacific Northwest Coast written by Cameron McPherson Smith and published by British Archaeological Reports. This book was released on 2008 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Canadian northwest coast complex foragers, and particularly those of the Greater Lower Columbia River region, assists general anthropology and anthropological archaeology in several ways: it identifies material correlates of one example of complex foragers, which may be useful in other analytical contexts, it assist in understanding the origins of inequality on the Northwest Coast and elsewhere by describing the precontact organization of labour, and it also assists in the understanding of how the unique sedentary foragers of the Lower Columbia region were economically organized in the early-contact period, partially as a test of the accuracy of historical reports. This report investigates the relationship between the organization of labour and usewear and artefact distributions from the floor areas of three aboriginal plank houses excavated in the Greater Lower Columbia River region. These houses date to the late precontact/early contact period, from ca. 1400 AD to 1830 AD. Lithic usewear analysis on tools excavated from these houses was used to identify the range and nature of extractive and maintenance activities carried out within the houses during occupation.

Book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes

Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis

Download or read book Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis written by Michael Glassow and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the practice of archaeology benefit from faunal analysis? Michael Glassow and Terry Joslin's Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis: Insights from California Archaeology addresses this question. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how faunal remains can be used to elucidate subsistence, settlement, technological systems, economic exchange, social organization, adaptation to variability in resource distribution and abundance, and the impacts of historic land use. The sheer prevalence of faunal remains in California archaeological sites means that most archaeologists working in the state inevitably must give these resources their close attention-and yet methodological challenges remain. The chapters in this thoughtfully edited volume tackle these challenges, providing strategies for identifying and mitigating sample bias and recommending quantitative techniques borrowed from a variety of disciplines. The volume also presents examples that illustrate the use of faunal data to test hypotheses derived from microeconomic theory, the applicability of bone and shell chemistry to faunal analysis, and the relevance of faunal data to addressing issues in biology.

Book The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island

Download or read book The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island written by Torben C. Rick and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California's northern Channel Islands have one of the longest and best-preserved archaeological records in the Americas, spanning some 13,000 calendar years. When European explorers first travelled to the area, these islands were inhabited by the Chumash, some of the most populous and culturally complex hunter-gatherers known. Chumash society was characterised by hereditary leaders, sophisticated exchange networks and interaction spheres, and diverse maritime economies. Focusing on the archaeology of five sites dated to the last 3,000 years, this book examines the archaeology and historical ecology of San Miguel Island, the westernmost and most isolated of the northern Channel Islands. Detailed faunal, artefact, and other data are woven together in a diachronic analysis that investigates the interplay of social and ecological developments on this unique island. The first to focus solely on San Miguel Island archaeology, this book examines issues ranging from coastal adaptations to emergent cultural complexity to historical ecology and human impacts on ancient environments.

Book Archaeology

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  • Author : Brian M. Fagan
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-09-29
  • ISBN : 100044029X
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Archaeology written by Brian M. Fagan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology is a jargon-free and accessible introduction to the field which details how archaeologists study the human past in all its fascinating diversity. Now in its thirteenth edition, this classic textbook has been updated to include the latest research and new findings in the field. Reflecting the global scope of the discipline, the book has a truly international coverage of important discoveries and sites from many corners of the globe. Individual chapters examine archaeology and its history, considering the role of the archaeologist and how they discover, investigate and classify sites and artifacts. This journey through archaeology also includes a discussion of important individuals and groups, and some of the ways in which archaeologists attempt to explain major social and cultural changes in the remote past. Archaeology ends with an outline of the complex world of cultural resource management and gives invaluable advice on how to become an archaeologist. Richly illustrated throughout, this popular and engaging textbook on archaeological methods has introduced generations of students to the captivating world of archaeology.

Book The Lifeways of Hunter Gatherers

Download or read book The Lifeways of Hunter Gatherers written by Robert L. Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity.